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541.
by ummonk 3y ago
Sounds like Clubhouse before it went mainstream and the quality plummeted.
542.
by ummonk 3y ago
Well, the Assyrian Empire was doing better than ever after the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
543.
by ummonk 3y ago
> Yet you don't see people take such issue with terms like "Bronze Age Collapse," because these comments aren't coming from a consistent intellectual framework, but rather from people mindlessly repeating a shibboleth
544.
by ummonk 3y ago
Not sure how many users see it that way. I've always been annoyed with first-mover mods having perpetual control over subreddits (it's especially bad for e.g. some reddits named after countries, which are controlled either by angl
545.
by ummonk 3y ago
Engineering disasters (e.g. the FIU bridge, the Boeing 737 MAX, the Miami condo collapse, and now the Titan submersible) are rightly subjects of significant interest in the press in general and hacker news specifically. And rightly so - one
546.
by ummonk 3y ago
As the article mentions though, one of the issues with using carbon fiber for this is that unlike titanium, it weakens with each pressure test.
547.
by ummonk 3y ago
Thank you for explaining. I couldn't make heads or tail of what the article was saying, and most of the comments in this thread are discussing different problems with federated services, rather than specifically this problem with feder
548.
by ummonk 3y ago
Emails aren't sent to the whole world and linked to on websites though
549.
by ummonk 3y ago
Not at all though. I can use an email address from my own domain name and then switch email providers without losing the identity I have built up.
550.
by ummonk 3y ago
It's not centralization if you can set up an account tied to your own domain name (similar to an email address for your own domain) without needing to self-host an instance.
551.
by ummonk 3y ago
There's no gotcha. My account hit the rate-limit hours ago and twitter is no longer viewable when logged out, so I literally cannot view what the tweet you linked to is saying...
552.
by ummonk 3y ago
Flagged for linking to a tweet I can't view since you haven't written what it says
553.
by ummonk 3y ago
With a more normal 100 tweets viewed per minute, a verified user would hit the limit in an hour, which is quite low for the kind of power user that would purchase twitter blue.
554.
by ummonk 3y ago
Steve Huffman and Elon Musk both seem to be so mad about scraping (especially for ML training) that they're willing to make the user experience vastly worse for their users in pursuit of preventing scraping.
555.
by ummonk 3y ago
I don’t have an issue with governments using “private” cell phone networks for amber alerts, if that’s what you’re asking
556.
by ummonk 3y ago
Or rather would shutdown linking to TechCrunch.
557.
by ummonk 3y ago
Rocks can be used to murder people by bashing them on the head. Maybe it's not the criminals we should be worried about so much as all the rocks out there on planet earth.
558.
by ummonk 3y ago
Solve the Captcha to prove you're a real person
559.
by ummonk 3y ago
Using parental income as well as parental education level in admissions would have helped GP's father just fine without any need for race-based affirmative action.
560.
by ummonk 3y ago
Err yeah I mean that stiffness reduces the internal stress caused by external compression force. Stiffness increases the buckling load of a material.
561.
by ummonk 3y ago
The epoxy in carbon fiber makes it stiff. Stiffness helps reduce buckling loads.
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by ummonk 3y ago
I don't think it has much to do with refugees vs. holiday trip. Other stories of (potentially) trapped people such as the Thai soccer team or the Chilean miners received similar nonstop coverage and media attention.
563.
by ummonk 3y ago
Human drivers usually back up or go around when that happens though.
564.
by ummonk 3y ago
It wasn't plugged in. It was a bluetooth controller.
565.
by ummonk 3y ago
Don’t forget Scaled Composites (Virgin Galactic’s partner) blowing up a pressure tank and killing three employees because they didn’t properly investigate nitrous oxide compatibility with composite materials and did a cold flow test on a ho
566.
by ummonk 3y ago
Twitter's API used to be free until Elon Musk recently started charging exorbitant prices for it.
567.
by ummonk 3y ago
The prices they're charging for API access are wildly disproportionate to the cost of the physical infrastructure required to run the services.
568.
by ummonk 3y ago
r/pics had 56,000 votes. That would be quite a lot of brigading... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_o...
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by ummonk 3y ago
And notably RIF had even been paying reddit in the past as part of a branding agreement until Steve Huffman became CEO and terminated the agreement.
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by ummonk 3y ago
People can be more productive by engaging in ventures they would otherwise not have due to prohibitive risk. (Likewise with credit allowing people to finance ventures that they would otherwise be unable to)

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